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HEALTH EQUITY INITIATIVES: We continue to see significant racial, ethnic and socioeconomic inequities in health in the City of Boston. To address these inequities and achieve health equity we need to keep community, system and policy level change as core to our goals. These goals are rooted in an organizational understanding that the state of public health is determined primarily by structures that impact people's lives and not poor individual decision-making, and that these structures are rooted in racism, classism, and other relationships of oppression that have benefited some individuals and communities at the expense of others.

The social conditions driving these inequities in Boston include poverty, residential segregation, racism, discrimination, and lack of access to affordable healthy foods, unequal distribution of physical activity opportunities, educational inequality, and lack of employment opportunities, affordable housing, and community violence. These social determinants of health are the economic and social factors that influence the health of individuals and communities can either facilitate or impede opportunities for good health. When equal opportunity to be healthy exists for all, health equity has been achieved. Through its partnerships, BPHC plans to develop strategies to address these major public health concerns.

ACTIVITIES WITH UNNATURAL CAUSES CAMPAIGN:
- Host a screening event featuring UNNATURAL CAUSES- Engage in media outreach- Use the series and materials in trainings or classes- Post and share information about the series with members and constituents